Senior Software Engineer - Scalable Systems & Reliability

Oracle; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 79,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a software engineer to design, implement, test, and operate major new features in our production systems. You will own feature and subsystem design, ensuring security, reliability, and performance while writing robust, well-tested code.

You will drive operational excellence, participate in planning, and work independently on most projects while handling on-call duties and incident response. The role emphasizes mentoring, metrics, dashboards, and reducing technical debt.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent domain-specific experience.
• Experience building and operating production software systems.
• Strong coding, testing, debugging, and design skills.
• Ability to work independently and make thoughtful technical tradeoffs.
• Experience with operational services, incident response, metrics, dashboards, or service health monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and operate major new features in existing systems.
• Own feature and subsystem design, including tradeoffs around security, reliability, scalability, maintainability, performance, and change management.
• Write production-quality code that is correct, secure, maintainable, robust, and well-tested.
• Drive operational readiness and excellence for owned features and subsystems.
• Participate in planning and risk identification for systems and services across the director-level organization.
• Work independently on most projects while seeking guidance for complex, mission-critical, high-scale, or cross-team problems.
• Support on-call operations, triage issues, and remediate problems without routine assistance.
• Lead or contribute to root-cause analysis and propose practical solutions.
• Develop or improve metrics, dashboards, and tools that increase situational awareness.
• Identify and implement improvements that reduce operational load, reduce manual touchpoints, increase service availability, improve compliance with organizational standards, and reduce technical debt.
• Improve the team through engineering practices, operational practices, development process, ownership, and mentoring.

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent domain-specific experience

Job description

Oracle is seeking a software engineer to design, implement, test, and operate major new features in our production systems. You will own feature and subsystem design, ensuring security, reliability, and performance while writing robust, well-tested code.

You will drive operational excellence, participate in planning, and work independently on most projects while handling on-call duties and incident response. The role emphasizes mentoring, metrics, dashboards, and reducing technical debt.